FISA Collection Will Be "Evaluated by Prosecutive Authorities"Let's shift our attention to the redacted Carter Page FISA warrant applications.
For Mueller, the Russia counterintelligence probe was cover to conduct a criminal investigation of Trump in the absence of grounds to believe a crime had occurred.
The government struggled to decide whether international terrorism was strictly a criminal matter, to be investigated with such techniques as criminal wiretaps, or a national-security matter, to be investigated under FISA and other intelligence-gathering procedures.
Based on this fear that FISA could be used pretextually to conduct criminal investigations, the Clinton Justice Department imposed "The Wall." To prevent investigators from exploiting FISA to steer criminal investigations, a barrier was imposed between the FBI's counterintelligence agents, on one side, and criminal investigators and prosecutors, on the other.
They withheld essential information from the FISA court about the source of their information, and about the apparent dishonesty and deep bias of their main witness, even as they presented unverified allegations to the FISA court, flouting FBI guidelines.
Yes, if agents conducting a good-faith FISA investigation incidentally discover evidence of a crime, they are not required to ignore it; but this sensible rule is not a license to conduct a FISA investigation with the objective of unearthing criminal evidence.
The FBI has been investigating for well over two years, and for nine months of that time it expressly told the FISA court it believed the Trump campaign was engaged in a corrupt conspiracy with Russia.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-russia-probe-fbi-fisa-application/
For Mueller, the Russia counterintelligence probe was cover to conduct a criminal investigation of Trump in the absence of grounds to believe a crime had occurred.
The government struggled to decide whether international terrorism was strictly a criminal matter, to be investigated with such techniques as criminal wiretaps, or a national-security matter, to be investigated under FISA and other intelligence-gathering procedures.
Based on this fear that FISA could be used pretextually to conduct criminal investigations, the Clinton Justice Department imposed "The Wall." To prevent investigators from exploiting FISA to steer criminal investigations, a barrier was imposed between the FBI's counterintelligence agents, on one side, and criminal investigators and prosecutors, on the other.
They withheld essential information from the FISA court about the source of their information, and about the apparent dishonesty and deep bias of their main witness, even as they presented unverified allegations to the FISA court, flouting FBI guidelines.
Yes, if agents conducting a good-faith FISA investigation incidentally discover evidence of a crime, they are not required to ignore it; but this sensible rule is not a license to conduct a FISA investigation with the objective of unearthing criminal evidence.
The FBI has been investigating for well over two years, and for nine months of that time it expressly told the FISA court it believed the Trump campaign was engaged in a corrupt conspiracy with Russia.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/09/trump-russia-probe-fbi-fisa-application/
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